There was a time when the electricity going off was not an unusual event. It might happen during a storm, after some problem with the local supply or simply for reasons that nobody in the house completely understood. One minute you would be watching television, making a cup of tea or doing something perfectly ordinary, and the next the entire house would suddenly go quiet. For Gen X, a power […]

John Healey has told delegates at the Labour conference that the financial situation facing the country is vastly different from when the party last took power. The veteran politician, who served under Gordon Brown, warned that the money New Labour inherited in the 1990s is simply no longer available. Healey noted economic growth back then was double that of subsequent Conservative years, leaving Britain facing far harder times today. A […]

There are meals, and then there is the Sunday roast. For generations of British families, Sunday lunch has been less about simply putting food on a plate and more about following a ritual that has somehow survived changing fashions, busier lives and the arrival of countless new cuisines. You can change the television, the car, the furniture and even the way you communicate with your family, but there is something […]